Double-barreled shotgun.



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T. G. JOHNSON. DOUBLE BARRELED SHOTGUN.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'IHOlVIAS C. JOHNSON, '0F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIG-NOR T0 YVINCI-IIIESTEIIR,v

REPEATING ARMS C0., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

DOUBLE-BARRELED SI-IOTGUN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Double- Barreled Shotguns; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

VFigure-1 a detailed view partly in left hand side elevation and partly in vertical section of the receiver of a double-barreled shotgun `constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the two hammers of the gun locked by the hammer-safety. Fig. 2 a corresponding view showing the hammers unlocked by the hammer-safety. Fig. 3 a detached plan view on an enlarged scale of the hammer-safety. Fig. 4 a detached view thereof in rear elevation on the same scale. Fig. 5 a view of the receiver partly in plan, and partly in horizontal sect-ion on the line -a of Fig. 1, looking downward, showing the hammers locked by the hammersafety; andthe breakdown lever in its normal position. Fig. 6 a broken view of the receiver partly in rear elevation and partly in vertical section on the line bof Fig. 1, looking forward, showing Vthe hammers locked by the hammer-safety and the breakdown lever in its normal position. Fig. 7 a view of the receiver vpartly in plan and partly in horizontal section on the line o o of Fig. 2, looking downward and showing the hammers as unlocked by pushing the hammer-safety from right to left into its unlocking position, the breakdown lever being in its normal position. Fig. 8 a brokenl view of the receiver, partly in rear elevation and partly in vertical section on the line cZ-CZ of Fig.` 2 lookingv forward, and showing the parts in the same positions in which they are shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 a broken view partly in plan and partly in horizontal section on the line a-a of Fig. 1, showing the locking of both hammers by the hammer-safety when the same is moved into its locking position by the movement of the breakdown lever into its breaking-down position. Fig. 10 a view partly in rear elevation and -partly in vertical section on the Speccation of Letters Patent. Patented June 20, 1911, Application led April 10, 1911. Serial No. 620,018. v

narily constructed, the hammer-safety is lo-V catedclose to the rear end of the breakdown lever and therefore where it is liable to be accidentally operated in the operation of the same. 1

Withthese ends in view my invention conysists in a double-barreled shotgun having certain details of construction and combinations Vof parts as will be hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a rod-like or cylindrical hammer-safety 2 solid at one end but having its opposite end reduced in diameter and threaded to form a stem 3 which receives an internally threaded cap 4 the external diameter of which exactly corresponds to the external diameter of the opposite end 5 of the safety which is provided with the described stem 3 and cap 4 to permit it to be assembled in the side walls 6 and 7 of the gun-frame or receiver -8 which is provided with a forwardly extending arm 9 to which the two barrels of the gun are pivoted in any suitable manner, these barrels not being shown as they have nothing to do with my present invention. The said hammer-Safety 2 has formed about midwayof its length and in its forward face, a notch 10 having a square left hand wall 11 which is engaged by a tooth 12V entering the said notch 10 and formed by producing a vertical cut 13 in the rear face ofthe lower end of a heavy stud 14 journaled l.in a vertical socket 15 in the center of the receiver 8 and forming a trunnion for the breakdown lever 16 the rear dend of which extends over the long tang 17 of the said receiver. When the said lever 16 is swungy from left to right as required for breaking down the gun, by which is meant swinging its two barrels down into their open or charging positions, the tooth 12 of the trunnion 14, by its engagement with the shoulder 11 of the hammer-safety, positively moves the same longitudinally from left to right into the position in which it is shown in Figs. 9 and 10.

The described lnovement of the safety from left to right, correspondingly moves its two depending locking-fingers 18 from left to right over two locking-lugs 19 formed upon the rear edges of the two hammers 20 which may also be of any approved construction and operation. As shown herein, the hammers 20 are provided with the customary hammer noses 21, sears 22 and springs 23, the latter being connected withl the hammers by means of hammer-spring plungers 24E and links 25. The particular construction of the hammers, however, forms no part of my present invention.

At the beginning of the movement of the hammer-safety 2 from left to right, it is oscillated on its longitudinal aXis so as to swing its said fingers 18 forward into line with the said lugs 19 upon the hammers 20 and as'the lower ends of the fingers 18 and the upper faces of the lugs 19 are beveled, the hammers 20 are slightly depressed by the fingers 18 as the same ride from left to right over t-he beveled lugs 19 of the hammers. The beveling of the fingers 18 and lugs 19 as described is done so that the hammer-notches 26 may be relieved from their engagement with the noses 27 of the sears 22 when the hammers are locked by the hammer-safety.

To provide for oscillating the hammersafety 2 as it is longitudinally moved for the purpose of swinging its locking-fingers 18 into their clearance and operating positions, I form a vertical slot 28 in its rear face, this slot being located to the right of the notch 10 in its forward face. At the opposite ends of the bottom ofl this slot 28, I form parallel semi-circular grooves 29 and 30 separated by a cam-surface 31 and adapted to receive the long arm 32 of a bent wire spring 33 secured by a screw 34 to the receiver 8. In order that the safety 2 may be oscillated by the spring arm 32 as the safety is jumped, so to speak, from the groove 29 tov the groove 30, and vice versa, in longitudinally moving the safety, the said grooves 29 and 30 are cut so as to have an angular relation with respect to each other. Thus, supposing the lower ends of the two grooves to be in the same plane, the groove30 is tilted forward at its upper end from the plane of the groove 29 for a distance suiiicient to secure the required oscillation of the safety the movement of which in opposite directions is limited by the co-action of the said spring arm 32 with the end walls 35 of the slot 28.

Then the safety 2 is automatically shifted from left to right by the action of the breakdown lever 16, the spring-arm 32 will be jumped from the groove 29 to the groove 30 and the safety 2 oscillated sufiiciently to swing its fingers 18 forward into line with the lugs 19 of the hammer 20. Conversely when the safety 2 is manually pushed back from right to left into its retired or unlocked position, the jumping of the springarm 32 from the groove 30 to the groove 29 will cause a sufficient oscillation of the safety 2 to swing its fingers 18 rearward clear of the lugs 19 so as to leave the hammers 20 free for firing.

Then the gun is broken down by the lever 16, the hammer-safety 2 will be automatically moved from left to right and at the same time oscillated for the co-action of its locking-fingers 18 with the lockinglugs 19 of the hammers 20 and thus lock the same positively in their cocked positions when the gun is open. Now when the gun is closed or breeched up, the barrels will be swung back into their firing or breeched positions at which time the breakdown lever 16 will, in the usual manner, be automatically swung back into its normal position, but the automatic restoration of the lever 1G to its normal position does not automatically unlock the hammers 20 which are kept locked and safe guarded by the haimner-safety 2 which is left undisturbed by the user of the n gun until the moment that it is desired to discharge one or both barrels of the gun. At this time the user of the gun uses his finger or thumb to push the safety 2 from right to left during which movement it is sufficiently oscillated by the co-action of the spring arm 32 with the relatively inclined grooves 29 and 30 to cause the safety to be suiiiciently rotated on its longitudinal aXis to swing its fingers 18 rearward so as to entirely clear the lockinglugs 19 upon the hammers 20 which are then free to respond to the pulling of the triggers.

I particularly wish to call attention to the simplicity and convenience of my improved safety, and to its loca-tion forward of the rear end of the breakdown lever 16 and below the same, so that in any ordinary handling of the gun, the safety cannot be accidentally operated, whereas there is always the danger of prematurely operating the hammer-safety of a double-barreled shot gun when the safety islocated, as it generally is in double-barreled Shotguns, in the upper tang ata point close to the rear end of the breakdown lever. I also wish to point out that my improved hammer-safety is arranged at a right angle to the axis of recoil and is therefore practically unaffected thereby.y

I claim s 1. In a double-barreled shotgun, the combination with the receiver, breakdown lever and hammers thereof, of a hammer-safety transversely mounted in the receiver, automatically moved into its locking position by the trunnion of the breakdown lever and manually moved into its unlocking position.

2. In a double-barreled shotgun, the combination with the receiver, breakdown lever and hammers thereof, of a longitudinally movable and rotatable hammer-safety positively moved into its locking position by the trunnion of the breakdown lever and having locking-lingers which co-act with the hammers and which are thrown into and out of Vengagement therewith by the oscillation of is positively moved into locking position by the said lever and manually moved into its unlocked position.

et. In an automatic shotgun, thecombination with the receiver, breakdown lever and hammers thereof, of a hammer-safety transversely mounted in the receiver, formed upon its forward face with a notch to receive a portion of the trunnion of the breakdown lever and upon its rear face with a slot containing two grooves arranged at angles relative to each other, and a spring entering the said slot and co-acting with the said grooves to oscillate the safety as the same is moved into its locked and unlocked positions.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

FRANKV A. PAUL, DANIEL H. VEADER.

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